One man's style must not be the rule of another's.
When money is once parted with, it can never return.
She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)
Time did not compose her.